Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 232 315
Rank change year-on-year -129 +83 -74
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 461 647 909
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.42% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.55% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 228 288 532
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,750 £37,639
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £51,530
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +6.09% +1.24%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,750 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,627 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.40% +10.10% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,702 41,872 87,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 92.19% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48,070 22,602 61,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,681 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -125 420 £66,771 -7.90% 375
London -31 256 £80,000 - 265
Work from Home +58 255 £63,076 -2.96% 149
UK excluding London -176 155 £63,076 -2.40% 148
North of England -12 56 £68,510 -14.36% 29
North West +21 37 £85,000 +6.25% 15
East of England -12 28 £65,000 -7.14% 18
South East -149 26 £47,500 -32.14% 54
Midlands -31 20 £61,250 -10.26% 15
South West -87 20 £69,056 +15.09% 20
West Midlands -21 18 £61,250 -11.87% 10
Yorkshire -35 16 £60,850 +87.23% 14
Scotland 0 5 £85,000 +4.62% 11
North East -41 3 £63,076 -23.54%
Wales -48 3 £69,501 +16.11% 2
East Midlands -30 2 £95,847 +59.74% 5

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (2.60%) Confluence
3 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.46%) Workfront
2 5 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.87%) Shopify
4 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.22%) Magento
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 77 (16.70%) AWS
2 62 (13.45%) SaaS
3 53 (11.50%) Azure
3 53 (11.50%) iPaaS
4 17 (3.69%) GCP
5 15 (3.25%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.82%) GitHub
6 13 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.60%) Pulumi
8 9 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (1.95%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.74%) Figma
10 7 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.30%) Asana
12 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.87%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.87%) Azure AI
13 4 (0.87%) H2O.ai
13 4 (0.87%) Miro
13 4 (0.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (16.05%) Broadband
2 29 (6.29%) HTTP
3 10 (2.17%) WAN
4 8 (1.74%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.30%) Firewall
5 6 (1.30%) LAN
6 5 (1.08%) Network Security
6 5 (1.08%) NGN
7 4 (0.87%) MPLS
7 4 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.65%) Multicast
8 3 (0.65%) WLAN
9 2 (0.43%) DNS
9 2 (0.43%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.43%) Wireless
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) Skype
10 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.36%) Metadata
2 13 (2.82%) Power BI
2 13 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 12 (2.60%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.60%) RDBMS
4 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.65%) Big Data
5 3 (0.65%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.65%) Tableau
6 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.22%) Redis
7 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (5.42%) JIRA
2 12 (2.60%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.22%) GitLab
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 159 (34.49%) Marketing
2 146 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 138 (29.93%) Finance
4 67 (14.53%) Banking
5 57 (12.36%) Retail
6 56 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (11.06%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (10.41%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (9.76%) Law
11 32 (6.94%) Public Sector
12 29 (6.29%) Legal
13 22 (4.77%) Back Office
14 14 (3.04%) Italian Language
14 14 (3.04%) Retail Banking
15 12 (2.60%) Manufacturing
16 11 (2.39%) German Language
16 11 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.95%) Legal Technology
17 9 (1.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (29.28%) Product Manager
2 77 (16.70%) Lead
3 75 (16.27%) Product Owner
4 69 (14.97%) Senior
5 40 (8.68%) Senior Manager
6 37 (8.03%) Senior Product Manager
7 34 (7.38%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.51%) Development Engineer
9 29 (6.29%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (4.56%) Developer
11 20 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (3.69%) Consultant
12 17 (3.69%) Product Lead
13 14 (3.04%) Business Consultant
13 14 (3.04%) Business Development Consultant
13 14 (3.04%) Development Consultant
13 14 (3.04%) Platform Manager
14 12 (2.60%) Cloud Developer
14 12 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (2.60%) Lead Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.72%) REST
2 12 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.74%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.74%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.30%) CSS
4 6 (1.30%) HTML
5 5 (1.08%) LangChain
6 4 (0.87%) Keras
6 4 (0.87%) LangGraph
6 4 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.65%) .NET
7 3 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.65%) Spring
7 3 (0.65%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.43%) FHIR
8 2 (0.43%) Pandas
8 2 (0.43%) Plotly
8 2 (0.43%) React
8 2 (0.43%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 166 (36.01%) Product Ownership
2 64 (13.88%) Social Media
3 54 (11.71%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.71%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.81%) Cloud Native
5 30 (6.51%) Public Cloud
6 19 (4.12%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.90%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.39%) Web Conferencing
10 9 (1.95%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.74%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.30%) Podcast
12 6 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.08%) Data Fabric
13 5 (1.08%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.34%) Linux
2 13 (2.82%) Unix
3 7 (1.52%) Windows
4 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (65.94%) Roadmaps
2 214 (46.42%) Agile
3 140 (30.37%) Product Roadmap
4 127 (27.55%) Product Vision
5 107 (23.21%) Decision-Making
6 97 (21.04%) AI
7 93 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (19.96%) User Stories
9 88 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 86 (18.66%) Mentoring
11 84 (18.22%) Customer Experience
12 83 (18.00%) Product Backlog
13 82 (17.79%) Product Requirements
14 72 (15.62%) Sprint Planning
15 71 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (14.53%) Workflow
17 65 (14.10%) Software Engineering
18 63 (13.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 61 (13.23%) Matrix Organization
19 61 (13.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 48 (10.41%) Java
2 33 (7.16%) Python
3 22 (4.77%) JavaScript
4 14 (3.04%) Bash
5 12 (2.60%) Go
6 11 (2.39%) SQL
7 6 (1.30%) Bicep
8 3 (0.65%) C#
8 3 (0.65%) C++
8 3 (0.65%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.65%) PHP
8 3 (0.65%) R
9 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.22%) C
10 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 70 (15.18%) Degree
2 14 (3.04%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.95%) HND
5 9 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.74%) HNC
7 7 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.87%) CCNA
9 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.87%) CSPO
9 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.65%) CISSP
11 2 (0.43%) ACCA
11 2 (0.43%) Dell Certification
11 2 (0.43%) IIBA
11 2 (0.43%) MCSA
11 2 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.42%) QA
2 18 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.39%) GDPR
4 9 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.87%) PERC
5 4 (0.87%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) DICOM
6 2 (0.43%) HL7
6 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (3.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Firmware
3 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.43%) vSphere
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (5.64%) Terraform
2 16 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.60%) Ansible
3 12 (2.60%) Argo
3 12 (2.60%) Kustomize
3 12 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.43%) WSUS
6 1 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (13.02%) Adobe
2 46 (9.98%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.56%) Google
4 12 (2.60%) Oracle
5 10 (2.17%) Cisco
6 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) Dell
8 5 (1.08%) Databricks
8 5 (1.08%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.08%) Juniper
9 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.87%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.65%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.65%) CQG
10 3 (0.65%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.65%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.65%) Reuters
10 3 (0.65%) Trayport